Support for Alternative Layouts
This is a summary of how alternative layouts have been supported by kits such as Colevrak and Homing. It is not a discussion of alt layout performance and development, but if that interests you I highly recommend starting with Pascal Getreuer’s A guide to alt keyboard layouts (why, how, which one?). It’s a concise and comprehensive overview with links to some great sites that go deeper. He also has a separate Links about keyboards page. The Keyboard layouts doc he recommends explains layout goals and metrics in detail, summarizing the alt layouts discussed here as well as more than one hundred others. Sculpted-profile The majority of custom keycap sets are sculpted-profile (Cherry, SA, MT3, KAT, etc. - more on profiles generally here) so let’s start there. Because each row has a unique keycap shape, alt layouts require a unique keycap for each legend that moves off its QWERTY row. At first there were two The Dvorak layout was patented in 1936 by August Dvorak & William L....
Apr 23, 2024
Many of you know that BSP is one of the legacy keycap makers out there since the beginning of time. BSP is one of the OG manufacturers of PBT keysets and is well known to be one of the best PBT dye-subbed with nearly unequaled quality.
Many of you are now familiar with Hammer, the brain behind the infamous spinner artisan, designer collabo artisans (MiTo, A. Schmidt) and many more.
Inspired by the classic beige/cream color way, Team Hammer have worked on this since we were in talks for a loooooong time. That being said, the drop will be launching soon , and I want to get a pulse check to see what you guys are excited about the most. We will be offering the following below, also check out the GH thread below for some more design details.
ANSI sets: APL Ansi, Arabic Ansi, Tulip GK Ansi, Tulip OG Ansi
Add on kits/sets: Icon Mods, Retro Winkey Set, RGB Add On Set
Edit: Dr Clicks Artisan: in Beige or Cream
Original thread by Hammer: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=94158.0
Cheers and looking forward!
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